Example sentences of "[noun pl] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal . |
| 2 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 3 | Before 1914 , when European socialist parties had little prospect of power , the contradiction between their ambition to establish democratic control over economic life , and their sympathy for a liberal internationalism rooted in the principles of the free market , remained largely unacknowledged . |
| 4 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 5 | Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children . |
| 6 | The teenage mothers like their parents had little ambition and worse prospects for anything except further childbearing ( Cartwright 1978 ) . |
| 7 | Top-up funds from parents had little impact , however , in secondary schools where capitation levels ranged from £1.30 to £2.73 a pupil — money which usually had also to cover stationery and printing costs . |
| 8 | Even here the Communists had little success , their activity remaining on the third level of faction fighting and street corner abuse of the rest of the labour movement . |
| 9 | They took her out , across the wide Neva river to the north-east of the city , to a long street of factories and high concrete walls where tourists and visitors had little reason to go . |
| 10 | A would-be separator from the commune in these areas had little prospect of acquiring sufficient land and commanding adequate capital to establish a viable independent farmstead . |
| 11 | With the Everqueen lost , the Elves had little heart to fight on . |
| 12 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 13 | However , because the Catholics had little share in the city 's wealth creation , they continued to identify with the nationalist tendencies of the southern Irish majority . |
| 14 | Students in Cardiff in those days had little money and no holidays . |
| 15 | Christianity in the early days had little effect on the popularity of astrology . |
| 16 | Sadly the performance record of OTC stocks had little reassurance to offer him . |
| 17 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except m short term response to the annual cash limits . |
| 18 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except in the short term in response to the annual cash limits . |
| 19 | Pigments and inorganic primers had little influence on the results . |
| 20 | Yet the cap on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal discussed in Chapter 17 meant that a significant number of executives had little option but to fight through the thickets of civil court procedure . |
| 21 | In tracing the influence of psychodynamic theory , Payne offers a three part periodic table consisting of the following elements : prior to 1920 when these theories had little influence ( pre-influence ) ; a period of dominance between the 1930s and 1960s ; from the 1960s to the present when they form one of many alternatives . |
| 22 | The Africans had little reason to look to British political parties . |
| 23 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 24 | Yet it was not clear that the Act was successful in controlling the situation after 1937 ; in Germany the banning of political uniforms had little effect on the rise of the nazis . |
| 25 | Most critics had little difficulty in associating the faults of the movies with aspects of the American personality . |
| 26 | The capital asset of the farms had little importance for most yet in some areas the value must have been substantial . |
| 27 | So , with many commodities , world market prices had little relevance . |
| 28 | First , it appeared that there existed few formal and detailed policy statements , within LEAs , to guide schools in curriculum matters , and also that governors had little involvement with the curriculum . |
| 29 | THE girls had little chance of escape once the blaze took hold . |
| 30 | Doctors had little reason to suspect the real carriers of disease , fleas for plague and lice for typhus : diseases came and went , but the fleas and lice were always there . |